“The thing is, in the hip-hop world, when you talk about someone, you might not want to see them, because you don’t know what’s going to happen. With Moby, it wasn’t like I literally wanted to physically put hands on him. It’s just that all my life I’d been trained to react a certain way when put in a situation like that. My instinct was, someone talks about you, you see them, you fight. But Moby? Really? I was going to fight Moby? I was going to fight a puppet? I don’t know if anybody will even understand it now. It was basically just too many different things at once — Moby, Christina, the puppet…I was like, Okay, someone’s really f***ing with me.”

“In hindsight, I should have handled it differently, and I truly believe that if I were in that situation again, knowing the whole shtick with the puppet dog, I would have acted differently. What I actually got mad about was the most ridiculous thing in the world. A puppet.”

“This is the kind of s*** that happens that makes me think to myself, maybe you need to go back to anger management class. Because, obviously, I haven’t learned. Even now, part of me feels like, Eminem, whenever you drink you get violent. Another part of me is like, No, whenever somebody f***s with me, I get violent. And if I’m drunk and someone f***s with me, it’s even worse. This is one reason why I never go out.”

“This problem is not something I’m proud of. I mean, I’m a lot better than I used to be. I am. But it’s still messed up. I’m 35 years old. I’m a dad now. Once you hit 30, you’re supposed to at least be a half-grown-ass man, you know what I mean? The truth is, a lot of things put me on edge. Even today. It can be something as simple as being asked a million stupid questions, or a rapper who’s not on my level trying to come up by starting beef with me. So many things. God knows, 10 years down the road I don’t want my daughters hearing about all this somewhere and going, ”He thinks it’s cool to act like this.” Because I don’t. The moral of this story is not that it’s alright to walk around with my chest stuck out saying, ”Look at me. I’m Mister F***ing Tough Guy.””

“But, you know, when you grow up like I did — bouncing around, fighting for everything — it does make you angry. It just does. It’s something I’ve kind of tried to block out, but when I do think back about how many schools I went to and everything else, it makes me realize, No wonder I was so mad at everything. It was almost a way for me to get back at every bully who ever picked on me, every person who ever f***ed with me growing up. The fact that Hailie’s life is so different than mine is one of my proudest achievements.”

“I do think age has made a difference. Hailie and Alaina are getting older, and I’m not taking so many things to heart like I used to. I mean, I still have a temper, but I have more control now. The stakes are high, and my family comes first. Marshall Mathers behind bars isn’t cute, and Eminem behind bars is terrible for business.”

“Guns and violence have been around me my whole life — in my family life, in my social life, everywhere. I’ve just always had a fascination with them. I’m not saying I was a thug or that I dealt drugs or murdered people. That’s just how I was raised — step up or get stepped on — so I never really thought it was a problem, you know?”

“When I was 11, living in Missouri, my uncles would take me to the gun range to bust guns. AK-47s. They’d let me empty off the whole clip. When I was seven years old I was handling my uncle Todd’s Colt .45 — the same Colt he allegedly ended up murdering a dude with in a supermarket parking lot. He had me shooting at beer cans at that age. Sounds crazy, but it’s true. Anybody who has a gun will tell you that at first it makes them feel powerful. I was infatuated. Obviously I don’t feel that way now. I’ve lost too many friends, family members, loved ones to gun violence. I would much rather use my fists. (Kidding.)”

“A lot of people in my family had screws loose because of abuse. If you go back and look at the abuse that I took, it’s no surprise I became who I am. Someone I don’t really want to be.”